Pirimelinae

Pirimelinae
Pirimela denticulata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Pleocyemata
Infraorder:	Brachyura
Family:	Carcinidae
Subfamily:	Pirimelinae

Pirimelinae is a subfamily of crabs belonging to the family Carcinidae in the order Decapoda. ^[1] It previously was treated as a family. ^{[2] [3]}

Genera

Extant genera: ^{[1] [2] [3]}

• Pirimela Leach, 1816
• Sirpus Gordon, 1953

Extinct genera: ^{[2] [3]}

• † Parapirimela Van Straelen, 1937
• † Pliopirimela Van Bakel, Jagt, Fraaije & Willie, 2003
• † Trachypirimela Müller, 1974

References

1. WoRMS. "Pirimelinae Alcock, 1899". World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved 22 December 2022.
2. De Grave, Sammy; Pentcheff, N. Dean; Ahyong, Shane T.; Chan, Tin-Yam; Crandall, Keith A.; Dworschak, Peter C.; Felder, Darryl L.; Feldmann, Rodney M.; Fransen, Charles H. J. M.; Goulding, Laura Y. D.; Lemaitre, Rafael; Low, Martyn E. Y.; Martin, Joel W.; Ng, Peter K. L.; Schweitzer, Carrie E.; Tan, S. H.; Tshudy, Dale; Wetzer, Regina (2009). "A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology . 21 Suppl.: 1–109.
3. "Pirimelidae". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 5 June 2021.